Vocabulary instructional strategies

If you have been trying to find some new teacher tips and tricks on building vocabulary, you have come to the right place. I am sharing my 5 teacher tips for building vocabulary activities. These vocabulary activities for elementary are easy to implement during literacy small group, morning work, and literacy centers. All you need to do is build word walls in the classroom or anchor chart display wall, early elementary read alouds, rich conversations, and more!

“Hey kids, it’s time to practice our new vocabulary words.” Can you hear the moans and groans?Practicing vocabulary is boring (according to kids) but when you add in dice, it becomes a game! I call it Roll a Word! It’s easy peasy to implement! For each vocabulary students roll a die. The number they […]

Let's dive into some new options to teach vocabulary, for those who have the time and energy to pursue them. In this post and podcast, I'm sharing ten ideas for making the study of vocabulary something students might even look forward to.

Find 10 engaging and fun activities for vocabulary for your upper elementary students. These activities are perfect for reviewing and learning vocabulary for reading or any other subject.

Learn about 14 vocabulary strateiges you can use in your elementary classroom. These strategies to teach vocabulary include using context clues, using the Frayer model, and playing vocabulary games that keep students engaged! Teaching word meanings and vocabulary development are a part of reading comprehension and these strategies to teach vocabulary will help you increase yours tudents' vocabulary and reading comprehension skills. Start using these vocabulary instructional strategies today!

Find out how word walls can help you teach Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary words!

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Back again, and talking about vocabulary instruction! With both Valentine's Day and Presidents' Day looming, I can't think of a better time to expand students' vocabularies with some carefully chosen Tier 2 words. What are Tier 2 Words? Tier 2 just means that the word is high-utility, and is worth taking the time to explicitly teach! These are words that are not in our students' normal-day vocabularies, but are also not so highly specialized, that they would hardly ever need to be used. In…

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As teachers we know that vocabulary is pivotal in students’ success. When I was growing up, our vocabulary activities consisted of looking up definitions in the dictionary and copying them down on notebook paper. Do you think I truly understood those vocabulary words? Not. One. Bit. In order to truly understand vocabulary words and what […]